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Helen Edmundson, because I wasn’t able to be a better friend at school.
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Anybody who met me before I was 30, because I was a drug addict, and all my relationships were experienced through that prism.
My parents, because I rather slipped from their standards on more than one occasion. And when they got older, I wish I’d been kinder and more tolerant with them.
The people I hurt when I was suffering with addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.
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Being friends with all of the people I grew up with.
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
Right now, terrifying.
Either shredding duck in a Chinese restaurant, or Oblivion.
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